Government R&D and green technology spillovers: the Chernobyl disaster as a natural experiment

Children’s vulnerability to weather shocks: A natural disaster as a natural experiment. Social Science Research Network

The Chernobyl Disaster A Human Tragedy for Generations to Come

O n April 26, 1986, unit number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Reconstruction of the event, so far as it is practicable today, suggests that a “power excursion” increased the nominal energy output within four seconds by a factor of 100, followed in an instant by a factor of 1,000 or more; then a hydrogen explosion peeled open the reactor containment leaving the molten nucle...

Fdi Technology Spillovers and Wages

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local competitors. Hence, the national wage bill is unaffected by the presence of MNEs. In cont...

The Chernobyl disaster: cancer following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in Ukraine about 130 km north of the capital of Kiev and about 10 km south of the border with Belarus, was the scene of the most severe accident that has ever occurred in the nuclear industry. On April 26, 1986, two violent explosions destroyed the core of unit 4 of the power plant and the roof of the building, resulting in a series of fires and in mas...

The Chernobyl Disaster and Beyond: Implications of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

On the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Amina Aitsi-Selmi and Virginia Murray reflect on the importance of disaster preparedness.